No, no, it's not too much makeup, that would look different. I'm just comparing the 'ergh' effect it generates, not the visual effect.
The shadows on his face in shot #2 (and to a lesser extent in #3) look too smooth, too artificial, like he's a piece of CGI art. Speaking as someone who paints things in Photoshop, it... well, it looks like someone painted them in Photoshop. Or at the very least went duplicate layer/gaussian blur/overlay, the magic forumla for making everything tasteful and pretty. His complexion in #4 looks like it might be a little rough. Hence, one imagines, the heavy-handed smoothing in the daylight shots.
Please don't think I'm criticizing your darling little piece of Slavic jailbait, though -- he's awfully sweet and I want to steal his shirt/jacket combination, conveniently leaving him with less clothes on for the rest of you.
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Date: 2006-10-06 08:08 am (UTC)The shadows on his face in shot #2 (and to a lesser extent in #3) look too smooth, too artificial, like he's a piece of CGI art. Speaking as someone who paints things in Photoshop, it... well, it looks like someone painted them in Photoshop. Or at the very least went duplicate layer/gaussian blur/overlay, the magic forumla for making everything tasteful and pretty. His complexion in #4 looks like it might be a little rough. Hence, one imagines, the heavy-handed smoothing in the daylight shots.
Please don't think I'm criticizing your darling little piece of Slavic jailbait, though -- he's awfully sweet and I want to steal his shirt/jacket combination, conveniently leaving him with less clothes on for the rest of you.